Deal Flow Engineer Networking Portfolio 
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2022
This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. USA Angel Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.
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David Teten
MARCH 18, 2021
Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. USV invests in companies that increase “ access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols ”. Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.).
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2021
The Denominator Effect I recently wrote a post about funding for investors to think about having a diversified portfolio , which I called “shots on goal.” The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. Don’t rush to do deals.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship.
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